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“A bit of sociology takes you away from the law ; a lot of sociology brings you back to the law.” This aphorism sums up the author's career as a law professor. During the first part of his career, at Université Laval, his specialization in legal sociology and his preference for an external approach to law distanced him from positive law as an object of teaching and research. The second part of his career, on the contrary, marks a clear reconciliation with an internal perspective. The author describes the particularities of his contract law course, which he taught for twelve years as part of McGill University's transsystemic law education program : the objective of training in critical legal thinking, the systematic attention to contemporary socio-legal facts that transform contractual practices, and the dialectical confrontation of conventional and alternative contract law theories. In retrospect, the author notes that this pedagogical experience has remained deeply inspired by Georges Gurvitch's legal sociology.

Despite growing national attention on the costs of accessing justice, surprisingly little information has been collected about the psychological ‘costs’ of engaging in litigation. This article summarizes the health and psychology literature, to present a picture of the impact that litigation can have on litigants’ health, state of mind, life goals and social relationships. Set against professional obligations embedded in the lawyer’s role, we assert that awareness of the negative impacts of legal processes on the emotional and psychological functioning of clients is important. With greater awareness, lawyers can better assess the value of litigation, prepare their clients (and themselves) for litigation stress, and, where appropriate, take preventative actions to minimize the negative aspects of the litigation experience. With that in mind, we identify positive solution-oriented responses to preventing, reducing and alleviating litigation stress. These strategies focus on client-centred communication, supports and planning.

The successive transformations of work environments, particularly in terms of technology, prove to be emotionally demanding and are likely to impact worker attitudes and performance. In this context, manager emotional intelligence (EI) has been highlighted as a substantial resource to support and influence their subordinates. However, given the wide range of empirical findings on the potential effects of manager EI on subordinates at work and the variety of measurement instruments for EI, finding information on comprehension of these potential effects in the literature remains a challenge up to now. This systematic review, conducted using the PRISMA 2020 protocol, provides a qualitative synthesis of the potential effects of manager EI on subordinates and on the processes involved, classifying the results based on the three trends of EI. Following the selection and quality assessment process of the studies, a total of 56 studies (1990-2023) were selected. The results reveal that manager EI has a significant potential effect on subordinate performance (individual performance; team performance and effectiveness; innovation creativity and behaviours; organizational citizenship behaviours) in approximately 85% of the studies found. The results also showed that manager EI had a significant potential effect on the attitudes (individual and work group satisfaction; commitment and burnout), affects, and other variables related to subordinates in approximately 92% of the studies. This study comprehensively and accessibly illustrates the potential effects of manager EI on subordinates and provides researchers a starting point to build their study models.

Keywords: Intelligence émotionnelle, gestionnaires, subordonnés, impacts, recension systématique

The studies described in this paper investigated whether cultural hierarchy plays a moderating role in the association between parental autonomy support and child psychosocial adjustment, employing samples presenting a wide range of cultural variability (parents born in 71 different nations). The participants’ cultural backgrounds, based on the parents’ birth country, were rated in terms of emphasis on hierarchical power using Schwartz’s dimensional coding system. Structural equation modelling analyses revealed no moderation effect of cultural hierarchy on the relation between parental autonomy support and child outcomes, with the exception of the relation between parental autonomy support and adolescents’ autonomous self-regulation. As expected, parental autonomy support and cultural hierarchy were significantly and negatively correlated. Parental autonomy support was often associated with indicators of youth psychosocial adjustment, whereas cultural hierarchy was generally unrelated to adjustment. These results support self-determination theory’s position on the universal benefits of autonomy support.

Keywords: parental autonomy support, psychosocial adjustment, children, adolescents, cultural hierarchy, self-determination theory